Marie Boivin (1773 - 1841)

Marie-Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer. Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and used for 150 years. Source: Wikipedia

Known for
Mémorial de l'art des accouchemens (handbook for medical students and midwives, multiple editions)

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"Preeminent female teachers: Mme Lachapelle and Mme Boivin", p. 98–106. Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law 1799-1815 (2007), by June K. Burton